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jfz9580m

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8. Thabks
Tue Aug 26, 2025, 01:50 AM
Tuesday

This struck me in its wiki summary:

In the weeks and months after the attack, sporadic news gathered through an old but still-functioning vacuum tube radio receiver show that many major cities of the U.S. are in ruins and vast regions of the Continental United States are labeled by the government as off-limits "contaminated zones."


One of the most objectionable parts of modern technology is how little you need to understand to understand how things work.

I thought years ago that we would be a saner society if you had to know how things work in interesting ways (which to me almost always must involve the physical world not software. I code when I have to but I never found software very interesting) to use them. Our phones and computers are too easy to use. Or difficult to use entirely in annoying ways. Not cool puzzle solving but more like a zillion captchas to prove you are not a robot.

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I support post-apoplectic books jfz9580m Monday #1
I enjoyed Make Room! Make Room! The Blue Flower Monday #2
Thanks jfz9580m Monday #3
Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank. PoindexterOglethorpe Tuesday #7
Thabks jfz9580m Tuesday #8
You and I need to spend some time talking. PoindexterOglethorpe Tuesday #9
The Stand, by Stephen King rickyhall Monday #4
That's always been one of my favorites FoxNewsSucks Monday #5
The unedited version was bloated and boring. PoindexterOglethorpe Tuesday #10
Not sure how many pages, FoxNewsSucks Monday #6
I assume you read the classic from 1959 by Pat Frank... Pluvious Tuesday #11
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